Patricia Cornwell Quotes - Page 2

Grief was like a seizure that shook me like a storm.

I like to get to bed with a clear head.

And suddenly the world was filled with wooden faces and flat voices - and, you were alone.

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.

Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.

Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.

I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.

I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.

My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they've got to say.

I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.

I don't do things that are illegal.

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.

I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.

Everyone is doing forensics.

Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.

I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles.

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.

With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.

He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate.

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?

You have to live where you wake up, even if someone else dreamed you there.

I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.

The dead have never bothered me. It's the living that I fear.